Sgt. Tony Ruesga Jr. shared his experiences of building trust within the Darlington community recently at a 21st Century Policing conference at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Ruesga is a 16-year veteran of the Darlington Police Department who received an award in 2010 for his work in the community with a growing Hispanic population.

As police around the country grapple with new models for building trust between their departments and the communities they police, we talk with a Wisconsin police sergeant from Darlington whose past work building a positive relationship with the town's growing Latino population is being seen as a model for community-building.

The 2016 election marked a major political shift in Wisconsin -- Democrats lost territory, and Republicans made gains in the White House, House, Senate, and state assembly. A Wisconsin political reporter tells us how Wisconsin made a full political reversal from Democrat to Republican in the last few years.

Universities across the United States are seeing a dramat increase in demand for mental health services and are grappling with how to serve the rising student demand, said Andrea Petersen, health and science writer and author a the forthcoming book, " On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety ."

For the Michna family of Caledonia, Wisconsin, Thanksgiving conversation this year is likely to circle back to their neighbor, the Oak Creek Power Plant, and the negative health effects on their family that they believe the coal plant is causing.

The U.S. Environmental Agency and the 10 states that border the Mississippi River, including Wisconsin, are not doing nearly enough to protect the waterway from pollution and contamination, according to a recent report.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has long been been among the top five nationally ranked research universities. However, this year, as research spending dropped, so did the university's ranking. UW-Madison went from fourth to sixth. Marsha Mailick, UW-Madison's vice chancellor for research and graduate education, said the National Science Foundation ranking...